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Tempting the Best Man

Gamble Brothers, Book 1

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Tempting the Best Man

By: J. Lynn
Narrated by: Kaleo Griffith
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Madison Daniels has worshiped her brother's best friend since they were kids. Everyone thinks she and Chase Gamble would make the perfect couple, but there are two major flaws in their logic. 1) Chase has sworn off relationships of any kind and 2) after blurring the line between friends and lovers for one night four years ago, they can't stop bickering.

Forced together for her brother's wedding getaway, Chase and Madison decide to call a truce for the happy couple. Except all bets are off when they're forced to shack up in a tacky 70's honeymoon suite and survive a multitude of "accidents" as the family tries to prove their "spark" can be used for more than fighting. That is, if they don't strangle each other first...

©2012 Jennifer L. Armentrout (P)2013 Tantor Contemporary Contemporary Romance Romance Feel-Good
Sweet Story • Enjoyable Romance • Great Narrator • Lasting Sexual Tension • Intriguing Plot • Witty Writing
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This was an alright story. Madison was nice but needed some backbone at times. Chase was pretty much an idiot who couldn't see how his actions affected others and lived a lie out of fear of being something he wasn't. The story was alright but the constant angst throughout the story was annoying. J. Lynn is actually a pseudonym for Jennifer L. Armentrout. I've read one book (which I liked) by her before this but it was in a different genre.

Madison works for a big museum and loves her work. She has a loving family and friends that she likes hanging out with. What Madison doesn't have is a man...this is because she's been in love with her brother's best friend, Chase, since she was very young and can't seen to find anyone remotely as good to help her get past him. She's tried to have a life but it's hard when they constantly run in to each other...like him getting an apartment in her building and always going to the gym at the same time as her...

Chase owns multiple night clubs and has done very well for himself. He's 1 of 3 brothers who were raised in a household where his father cheated on their mother and their mother drank away her sorrows. Chase decided that he's his father's son and he'll only hurt anyone he gets involved with so he decides never to get in a relationship.

So...Madison's brother and family think that her and Chase should be together so when a booking issue comes up, it's arranged so that Chase and Madison have to share a cabin. Since the resort that the wedding is taking place at is out in the boonies, there's no chance of either of them finding other accommodations. Madison is pretty much already horrified to be the Maid of Honor to Chase's Best Man and to have to bunk with him just makes it worse. She's always wanted Chase and she's the type of girl that wears her feelings on her face and doesn't lie well so it's not a hidden thing. Because of this, Madison is embarrassed when her family brings it up like it's cute. The fact that Chase treats her like a little sister doesn't help. They had one slip years before and haven't been able to get past it to their old friendship. They both miss it but don't know how to fix things.

So, Chase and Madison are stuck in a cabin together and of course Chase has trouble keeping his hands off Madison but when he does he stops and runs off like he's kissed a zombie so Madison is rightly feeling crappy about Chase's treatment of her. This is really where Chase showed how much of an idiot he is because he keeps pushing Madison away to "protect her" from the eventual heartbreak he's bound to make her feel when all the pushing away was doing the job quite nicely. Basically the drama is ongoing until the very end. Chase can't get past his determination that he's bad news (even though none of his past actions really demonstrate this) and Madison is trapped in the situation and keeps getting hurt by Chase being an idiot. Thankfully, Chase does come to his senses and goes after Madison and they have a nice ending to the story as they start planning their HEA.

This was an alright story. I liked Madison but yet at times I wanted to shake her. She was trapped in a situation she couldn't easily work around but I really felt she should have been more vocal about her issues with Chase's treatment of her...maybe he would have started realizing how his actions looked to others. Chase...well he seemed like a decent guy but he was an idiot and he just kept doing stupid things that, if he'd have thought about it from her PoV (or any other PoV other than his own), he might have figured out some things instead of things going to crap. Overall the story wasn't bad and was even enjoyable at times but the whole relationship drama seemed overdone. Hopefully this improves in the next book in the series as I've already purchased books # 2 & 3.

Alright start to the series

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Nice contemporary love story with a swoon-worthy male voice by the reader. The romance is very mild but sweet to listen to.

Nice contemporary love story

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As always, I love another one of Jennifer Armentrout's books. Not to mention the narrator's voice was deep and sexy!

Loved it!

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Cute, sexy story but the guy reading this really made it! I’m going to look up other books he reads. His performance was that good.

Amazing narrator

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I love a good sweet love story and this one is great. Sure it’s not as long as normal JLA books, but this first Gamble brother story is sweet and one I would definitely read again!

Love!

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Not bad. I listened to these out of order. Book 2 in the series is my favorite. I did enjoy Chase and Maddie ' s story.
Awesome job by Kaleo Griffith as always.

Sweet story

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This is a book about the brother getting married. His younger sister has had a childhood crush on his best friend (The Best Man.)

The celebrations are planned for a weekend, but alas they they have rented all the rooms out except for the honeymoon suite. Silly, but o.k. the hero (BM) & heroine are stuck together in the luxurious honeymoon suite. She doesn't want him to know that she has crushed on him for so long. He doesn't want to mess up the relationship with his best friend.

A rather cute listen and although there were some descriptions of sex they are not nearly as graphic as others I have listened to.

Overall enjoyable, the great narrator Kaleo Griffith never disappoints. Men sound like men and women sound like a man talking about women. He doesn't go all lisping over to a woman's voice which I love!

Notes: Mature Scenes & A Swear or 3



Credit/$worthiness: This is a tough one because it is only four hours long. I have a rule about purchasing anything shorter than seven hours with my credit. It must have been on sale. I did grab another book in the series that I have yet to read. So, I'll listen to the next book then I'll decide whether or not I want to stay with the series

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Madison Daniels has worshiped her brother's best friend since they were kids. Everyone thinks she and Chase Gamble would make the perfect couple, but there are two major flaws in their logic. 1) Chase has sworn off relationships of any kind and 2) after blurring the line between friends and lovers for one night four years ago, they can't stop bickering.

Forced together for her brother's wedding getaway, Chase and Madison decide to call a truce for the happy couple. Except all bets are off when they're forced to shack up in a tacky 70's honeymoon suite and survive a multitude of "accidents" as the family tries to prove their "spark" can be used for more than fighting. That is, if they don't strangle each other first...

©2012 Jennifer L. Armentrout (P)2013 Tantor

Spots of Silly, Hot, Romanic & Humorous

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I love this author! Her hometown is only about 20 minutes from me. I love that she writes about real, local places. She comes up with good stories and doesn't fail to execute. This story is a bit too common but she made it her own (h in love with brother's best friend cue the misunderstandings). This book was no exception. Although this is the first in the gamble brothers series, I actually started with book 2. After reading tempting the player I had to go back and hear about chase and maddie. I did think book 2 was a little better but I have a love for sports romances. You won't be disappointed. As I did, you can read them out of order but you will hear about chase in book 2 and not know the background. I suggest starting at book 1. The only thing lacking is a good narrator. This guy was really not right for this part. I love the narration by Andi Arndt and I think she would have been great for this part. Enjoy!

Love this author. Another great book!

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I really enjoy this author's young adult paranormal romances and even her new adult paranormal romances and adult fantasies. But I am not very impressed with her contemporary stuff that she wrote ages ago. Like this one.

It was short, romantic and fun for awhile, but you'll barely remember it afterwards.

Okay

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Very sweet!

Two of my favorite tropes - childhood friends to lovers and brother's best friend!

Spicy sweet contemporary romance

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